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Definition of tear away phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

tear away

phrasal verb
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tear yourself away (from something) | tear something away (from something)
  1. to leave somewhere even though you would prefer to stay there; to take something away from somewhere
    • Dinner's ready, if you can tear yourself away from the TV.
    • She was unable to tear her eyes away from him (= could not stop looking at him).
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